After months of intrigue and subterfuge, the identity of DC's Next Batman has been revealed as Tim Fox, the estranged son of longtime Batman ally Lucius Fox and brothe♔r of the former Batwing Luke Fox.

Tim Fox's literal unmaski🎃ng was perཧformed in DC's release of a . 

by Len Wein and Irv Novick (collected in ), Tim 'Jace' Fox's modern-day appearances have been sparse. He briefly appeared in the recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Batman #101 after a nine-year gap, re-emerging as the Fox family is coming back together after his fathꦰer, Lucius Fox, was given the Wayne family fortune an🌜d (companies) following 'The Joker War' arc.

Back in October, Newsarama pegged Tim Fox as one of two leading candidates t🐻o be revealed as the Next𒅌 Batman.

The Next Batman (and the mystery of his identity) was first announced in August, with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:writer John Ridley saying "I think it's 𓂃a pretty safe bet that if I'm writing Batman, it's probably a little better than a 47% chance he's going to be a person of color."

Although not revealing it was Tim Fox at the time, the writer did state the Next Batman story wou🍰ld focus on the family of Lucius Fox - Batman's longtime ally and designer of many of his gadgets.

"[Fox] has a family and this 💝is a family that has secrets, has kept secrets from one another," Ridley explained. "I🔯t's a little bit different dynamic than the Batman that we've always seen."

Following the conclusion of the Next Batman anthology limited series, this new Batman's story will continue in a short story in Batman: Bla꧂ck & White #3 in February in which he'll recruit a🌟 sidekick.

While fans almost always love a mystery (and the reveal of the truth), it's curious that DC decided to solve this nearly-four-month-long mystery in the reveal of a variant cover instead of holding it for people to find out by buying Future State: The Next Batman #1 in January (or, well, reading Newsarama, of course). The apparent reasoning can be expl✅ained with how comic book ordering works for comic book shops - which we go into detail about here.

ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚA question to keep an eye on in the coming weeks is how a character who makes his herඣoic debut in the near-future of the Future State Batman Future State will be incorporated in when DC's core line returns in force in March.

DC has already demonstrated that some characters making their debut in Future State titles -  like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wonder Woman Yara Flor and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Teen Titans' Red X - will be woven into current day continuity. What role Tim Fox will play in the main B🎐atman titles going forward and if the Next Batman will only exist in stories set in the near future is the next myst🦹ery surrounding him.

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